Let’s Prep for Extended School Year

Hey! If you are reading this post, you are probably heading into Extended School Year (ESY) too! This is my fifth year working ESY and while I always dread it a bit as ESY approaches, I am usually happy that I worked it. ESY is more relaxed with a summer camp feel. I love being able to stay connected with a few of my students during the summer. Some districts have more intense ESY programs than others, but for me, it is just a couple of hours, just a few days a week to help me keep a little bit of a schedule during the summer.

Here is how I get ready for ESY each year!

Image Description: Let's plan for Extended School Year 1. Review your caseload list and confirm their ESY service delivery.⁣ 2. Read each students' most recent progress report and objectives. Check-in with the primary SLP if you can.⁣ 3. Group children with similar goals and create a workable schedule. ⁣ 4. Input students, objectives, and schedule into autopopulating data forms and print for the duration of the ESY program.⁣ 5. Determine what specialized materials you need to borrow from the primary SLP or pull from your own resources.⁣ 6. Loosely map out each week of ESY. Themes can be helpful to keep you organized and minimize materials.

If you are interested in checking out the autopopulating data sheets, you can grab your copy here in the freebie library.

These are the themes I decided on for this year! And I already have a free one-page guide for each theme with books, articles, videos, songs, games, apps, play, and no-print resources so you are ready to tackle Extended School Year. Grab the themed speech therapy idea guides in my freebie library here.

Let me know if you are working Extended School Year this year!

Thanks for reading!

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